Word: frailness
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Hardy and plentiful as they seem, frogs are actually very frail things, with a semipermeable skin that leaves them vulnerable to even the slightest hiccup in their environment. So when entire species of brightly colored harlequin frogs started dying off in the cloud forests of Central and South America about 25 years ago, scientists suspected that something in the amphibians' ecosystems--they weren't sure what--had gone awry...
...fasten-your-seat-belt sign is ON,” shrieked the frazzled flight attendant as she chased me down the carpeted aisle. “I’m sorry,” I stammered, feeling like a frail gazelle in the clutches of a rabid hyena, “but I’ve been drinking coffee all day and we’ve been flying for two hours...
...made her international reputation with film comedies--like Movie Crazy, in which she played a quirky ingenue, and Blithe Spirit, David Lean's take on Noel Coward's play--Cummings became known for such emotionally compelling roles as Martha in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; frail matriarch Mary Tyrone, opposite Laurence Olivier, in the 1971 revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, both in London; and onetime aviator Emily Stilson in the Broadway drama Wings, for which she won a Tony...
...family but are the least utilized. That's when he came up with the grandmothers. They have the time to distribute the pills and the moral authority to see that the children jolly well take them. And it didn't matter if some of the women were too frail to make the rounds; the program actually worked better when villagers came to them to get the pills. "Even within a limited physical environment," says Shrestha, "the grandmothers...
...Louisiana nursing home where 34 residents were found dead after Hurricane Katrina; with negligent homicide; in New Orleans. Prosecutors say they ignored hurricane warnings and turned down an offer from authorities to evacuate their patients; a lawyer for the couple says they were worried about moving the frail elderly. Each of the 34 counts carries up to five years in prison...